5:37 p.m. • 2006-08-14

Listening to: The Dreadful Yawns

Tom Waits show......

Let me just start by saying, I've never seen a show ever like this. He comes out from behind a curtain. His siloutte first appears. Hands raised, you know that Tom Waits way, like he is going to play the piano, yet high above him in the air. He starts off his set with:

Make it Rain

After this he goes into a slew of songs with three fucking encores! Shit he played for over 2 hours.
Here's a list with some help from a few fan pages on the web:

Hoist that Rag
Shore Leave
Dead
God's away on business
Tango 'til they're sore
Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis
Tom Traubert's Blues
Til the money runs out
Whats he building
Failing Down
Eyeball Kid
Murder in the Red Barn
Trampled Rose
Lost at the bottom of the world
Shake it
Get behind the mule
Day aftre tomorrow
Clap Hands
Sins of my Father

- He told a few stories. Some were hard to decipher, due to his thick rustly voice. One when he supposedly went to a restaraunt when he last came through about a waitress treating him like shit, calling him "dickweed," "shitbag," and "old man." Another about the good year blimps and when he see's them, bad things happen to him. Like after he "robbed a store," and killed an "endangered species." Okay so some of these stories focus around this area, with landmarks and shit....

- He was dressed in blue jeans and a nice jacket. I noticed on the left side of his body that his jeans and jacket had some faint white streaks on them, like chalk marks from his hand. Oh, yeah and of course he wore his trademark beatnik hat with a red feather. As did so many of the male fans in the audience wearing slightly different variations.

- His buddy Jim Jarmusch was in the audience as well. You know the director dude that did "Down by Law." DJ spotted him...good one!

- It was nice to have such a good feeling during the show. Thanks.

-Bexx

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